Milk production, dairy cattle · Michigan

Black Soil Dairy

Grand Rapids, MI · ~32 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Soil Dairy runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Milk production, dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade C.

Black Soil Dairy: 4.4 TCR = 97% of Milk production, dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Soil Dairy safety composite

Black Soil Dairy scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−2.9

2022→2024

Black Soil Dairy injury rate improved

Black Soil Dairy's TCR fell 2.9 from 5.5 in 2022 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.5 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Grand Rapids, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 97% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #8/15
  • PHOTO GreenTop Acres, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GreenTop Acres, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black Soil Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Black Soil Dairy averages 4.4 TCR (97% of the Milk production, dairy cattle BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Black Soil Dairy TCR series: 2022=5.5 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Black Soil Dairy falls in its industry

530 Milk production, dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 15 Milk production, dairy cattle employers in Michigan.

Black Soil Dairy (32 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Black Soil Dairy
Black Soil Dairy (32 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Black Soil Dairy has fewer employees than the Milk production, dairy cattle median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2023 4.9 2.5 2 0 0
2022 5.5 2.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · MI · Grand Rapids

530 Milk production, dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 1,006 employers in Grand Rapids, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR GreenTop Acres, LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Majestic View Dairy 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Sky Dairy, LLP - NSDL289 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Noblehurst Farms Inc. 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6801_15743 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berrybrook 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Tawas 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Petosky CBO/Center 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHHG-GR BUTTERWORTH CA 9,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Butterworth Hospital 7,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital-MH-MI 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood 2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR Sonesta Resort Hilton Head Island 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR C&C Sage, Inc. dba True Blue (San Antonio) 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Romanelli & Sons 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1119 Greenville 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Security Signals, Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hillsdale 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otwell Terminal 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harvest Construction Company LLC 32 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.